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"Sleep" review in The Big Takeover!
July 26, 2010
Jack Rabid reviews "Sleep" in the current issue of The Big Takeover, calling it "lucious lullaby loveliness."
To read entire review, click here.

 

 

 

 

Amazon Top 100!
June 30, 2010
Thanks to everyone that purchased "Songs Mama Used To Sing" and "Zenith" at Amazon recently, causing both albums to enter Amazon's Top 100 Indie Alternative Rock Bestsellers chart yesterday.
"Bananas Foster" will be released on September 21, pre-sale available at Amazon in a few weeks.

 

 

 

 

"30 Century Man" t-shirt now available!
June 5, 2010
"30 Century Man" t-shirt is now available at The Jigsaw Seen Gift Shop.

 

 

 

"30 Century Man" EP released today!
May 18, 2010
The Jigsaw Seen's new "30 Century Man" EP includes the version of Scott Walker's classic song featured in the Futurama movie "Bender's Big Score" remastered by Peter Mew at Abbey Road Studios, London. 

 

To download "30 Century Man" at iTunes, click here.

 

"Sleep" review!
May 14, 2010
Beverly Patterson recently wrote the following review for the Princeton Record Exchange website:
Now here’s a great collaboration! Having initially achieved recognition in the eighties as the lead singer of  Wednesday Week, Kristi Callan has continued to pad her resume with a string of shining moments. Aside from carving out a nice solo career for herself, Kristi has also performed and recorded with famed figures such as Dave Davies and The Ventures, and currently fronts Dime Box Band. Active since the late eighties, The Jigsaw Seen is renowned for their bewitching brew of psychedelic pop rock. Discs like “Shortcut Through Clown Alley,” “My Name Is Tom” and “Zenith” are classics of their ilk, and have dutifully awarded the Los Angeles band flocks of fans. Administered by Kristi’s haunting vocals, “Sleep” stands as an electrifying slice of orchestrated pop splendor. Built upon a solid foundation of classy string arrangements and  trebly guitar work, the quirky atmospheric tune, which was composed by Kristi, sparkles with melodic radiance.
Dipping their toes into the Oasis songbook, Kristi and The Jigsaw Seen deliver a drifting, dreamy cover of “Morning Glory,” set in an acoustic format. As evidenced by this musically literate single, Kristi Callan and The Jigsaw Seen make an artistically compatible team.
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"Sleep" reviewed at Babysue!
April 19, 2010
Website Babysue.com recently posted the following review of Kristi Callan and The Jigsaw Seen's single "Sleep":
We rarely even spin singles...but we've really enjoyed releases by The Jigsaw Seen in the past so we slammed this one in for a listen. This single features two nice smooth pop tracks. The first, written by Kristi Callan, is a cool modern lullaby with strings in the background.
The second track is a cover of the Oasis tune "Morning Glory." A nice smooth spin...and this one sure whets the appetite for the upcoming Jigsaw Seen full-length Bananas Foster (due out later in 2010)...
www.babysue.com

 

 

 

 

"Sleep" reviewed at Mish Mash!
April 5, 2010
Website Mish Mash recently posted the following review of Kristi Callan and The Jigsaw Seen's single "Sleep":


Former Wednesday Week vocalist Kristi Callan has teamed up with our favorite modern-day psych garage band The Jigsaw Seen for a double-edged single release called Sleep. Side one (as it were) is the title track, a self-described "edgy lullaby" that has wall-of-sound guitar lines set against a string section, creating a dreamy atmosphere for Callan's soothing vocal lines. The perfect little indie rock lullaby. And to help with waking up again, the group does a kinder, gentler version of Oasis' Morning Glory, which turns the big guitar powerhouse original into a purring kitten, complete with a hurdy gurdy droning in the background. Just in case you need a little time to wake up.


MISH MASH Mandate: Sleep Perchance To Drone http://mishmashmusic.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

Jimmy Silva tribute album released today!
March 16, 2010
"Through A Faraway Window: A Tribute To Jimmy Silva" was released today by Steady Boy Records. In addition to The Jigsaw Seen's version of "The Branch", the album includes tracks by Young Fresh Fellows, Minus 5, John Wesley Harding, Jon Auer and many others.
To purchase CD at Amazon, click here.

 

 

 

 

New single released today at iTunes!
February 09, 2010

"Sleep", the new download single by Kristi Callan (ex-Wednesday Week) and The Jigsaw Seen was released today at iTunes.
From the press release:
Sleep is a spectacular collaboration between Kristi Callan and The Jigsaw Seen, consisting of two new recordings. The title track, written by Kristi, is an edgy lullaby featuring tremolo guitars and a moving string arrangement. Next up is the band’s dazzling melancholy arrangement of the Oasis classic, Morning Glory, distinguished by Ms. Callan’s plaintive vocal floating on a bed of acoustic guitars and droning hurdy gurdy.
This dream release is now available as a download at iTunes.

To download "Sleep" at iTunes, click here.

 

 

 

 

"The Branch" mastered at Abbey Road!
October 19, 2009
The Jigsaw Seen's version of "The Branch" from the upcoming Jimmy Silva tribute album was mastered today at Abbey Road Studio, London.

 

 

 

 

New “Shortcut” review!

June 22, 2009

The website Wilfully Obscure recently posted a review of The Jigsaw Seen’s 1990 debut, calling it a “sophisticated psych-pop treasure”.

To read entire review, click here.

 

 

 

 

Facebook

May 31, 2009

The Jigsaw Seen now have a page on Facebook, to view page or become a fan, click here.

 

 

 

 

"God Rest Ye" on BBC2!
January 18, 2009
British radio station BBC2 played The Jigsaw Seen's version of "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" on Christmas day alongside x-mas classics by James Brown and Aretha Franklin. To see the BBC playlist, click here.

 

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